(3) For whatsoever things were written (c) aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the (d) scriptures might have hope.
(3) The preventing of an objection: such things as are cited out of the examples of the ancients, are propounded unto us to this end and purpose, that according to the example of our fathers we should in patience and hope bear one with another.
(c) By Moses and the prophets.
(d) The scriptures are said to teach and comfort, because God uses them to teach and comfort his people with them.